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Sustainable Aviation: Emerging Trends and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

These include offsetting greenhouse gas production by purchasing carbon credits, investing in more efficient gas turbine engines, using sustainable aviation fuel, and manufacturing with novel materials and 3D printing methods. Figure 2: Aviation Industry CO 2 Emissions. Billion industry by 2027. Billion industry by 2027.

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Be a Disrupter

Martinka Consulting

We all know how Uber and Lyft have disrupted the taxicab industry. Observing town cars and their drivers outside of a hotel, there most of the day, it was evident they’ve also been disrupted. And it’s not efficient to have new Tahoe’s or Suburban’s inactive for many hours at a time.

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Technology is Changing Unexpected jobs

Martinka Consulting

Can you think of many industries not affected by technology? It seems automation and artificial intelligence are replacing high-paying blue-collar jobs in the oil drilling industry. This improved efficiency reminds me of one of my favorite stories. Cars are nothing but a computer on wheels.

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How Likely Is Your Industry to Be Disrupted? This 2×2 Matrix Will Tell You

Harvard Business

The topic of industry disruption — “a process whereby a smaller company with fewer resources is able to successfully challenge established incumbent businesses” — is rife with misconceptions. Industry disruption, as Accenture research has found, is reasonably predictable. Jorg Greuel/Getty Images.

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Ensuring Good Performance: How Consultancies Keep Their Employees Motivated

Tom Spencer

Fancy hotels and dinners, social contacts in the business world, and a reputation as a high achiever can tip the scale for some people. Clients expect fast results; meanwhile, hiring more consultants to do the same job is not efficient, since much more time has to be spent on knowledge transfer. Image: Pexels.

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We Don’t Need a Whole New Regulatory Regime for Platforms Like Uber and Airbnb

Harvard Business

We believe, however, that these businesses have not redefined industries in a fundamental way; instead they are “old wines in new bottles.” For example, many leading hotel companies moved to an “asset light” model years ago. While they do leverage nontraditional assets (e.g., Insight Center.

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How RPA, NLP and ML will create the virtual workforce of tomorrow

Tom Spencer

Instead, it sits on top of it, enabling a company to implement the technology quickly and efficiently – all without changing the existing infrastructure and systems. It is being used across industries to improve processes, identify patterns and anomalies in large datasets, and generate valuable insights.